Planet Blender

And I’m back doing what I do best, sketching spaceships. The spaceship tag at the top of this blog is the most popular destination on this whole site, and I’ve decided to stop ignoring that. I’ve started with a spaceship sketch that was a lot of fun to do. It’s a spaceship, with a little bit of streamlining, but not to much, and a heck of a lot of detail.

The back part of the spaceship is slightly curved upwards and so I decided to come up with some sort of name based on the idea of a scorpion. To decide what scorpion related name to use, of course I went straight to Wikipedia for inspiration. Scorpiones, was the name I came up with after a quick glance at the article. A lot of people are coming to look at my spaceship designs from a listing of my site at www.travellerrpg.com and I only wish I had more time to come up with Traveller statistics for every design, and even some floor plans so that their visits were even more rewarding than the spaceship inspirational sketches and designs that are here now.

There is an awful lot of Traveller stuff here at this blog, but it got strewn to the four winds when I updated to the latest Wordpress versions and the update process turned my hundreds of beautiful role playing game pages into blog posts and mixed them in with the other content, arggh, teeth gnashing noises.

So on with the design of Scorpiones. Along with the upturned tail a lot of other elements more or less suggested themselves as I was sketching this starcraft design. It sprouted two heavy warp engines and the casings for the engines were so robust looking that I asked myself if it might be able to enter an atmosphere and make planetfall on them.

While I was Googling around looking for other spaceship designs as inspiration, this nice collection came up. I don’t know if this is the artist’s official site, it seems strange that they would be using a flickr account, but what do I know. Anyway inspired by these images I’ve decided to try and add some colour to this spaceship, and after a very positive experience with Inkscape last time I had some colouring to do, I’m probably going to be putting that groovy free open-source app to use.

But before I start on such a complex spaceship I’m going to try Inkscape out on a simpler one. This simple spaceship design sketch from an earlier post.